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Sehore

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Also known as: Sihor
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Sehore, city, western Madhya Pradesh state, central India. It is located on the northern edge of the Vindhya Range near the confluence of the Siwan and Latia rivers, about 20 miles (32 km) west of Bhopal.

Sehore was a former British cantonment, and it served as the headquarters of the British Bhopal Agency. It was later handed over to Bhopal state in the early decades of the 20th century.

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The city is now a major rail junction and an agricultural trade centre. Sugar milling, cotton ginning, and hand-loom weaving are the chief industries. There is a government college affiliated with Bhopal University, and the city contains a small fort with a nearby mosque that stands on the site of an earlier Hindu temple. Sehore holds a number of well-attended annual events, including a cattle fair and a kisan (peasant) fair. Wheat, sorghum (jowar), linseed, and corn (maize) are the major crops raised in the surrounding agricultural area, which is watered by the Betwa, Parbati, and Narmada rivers. Pop. (2001) 90,333; (2011) 108,909.

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